Grocery Store · New Jersey

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus

Paramus, NJ · ~182 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus runs at 561% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus: 19.1 TCR = 561% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus safety composite

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus: 9.5 → 22.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 35.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus's TCR rose 13.4 from 9.5 in 2016 to 22.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 35.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Paramus, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.1 · 561% of ind

  • DART 14.0 DART
  • RANK #734/746
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0690 Na…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 161 inj
  • SIZE ~182 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0690 Naperville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus averages 19.1 TCR (561% of the Grocery Store BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=16.2 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=12.2 · 2020=17.6 · 2021=19.8 · 2022=35.8 · 2023=24.6 · 2024=22.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #734 safest of 746 Grocery Store employers in New Jersey.

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus (182 employees, TCR 19.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus
Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus (182 employees, TCR 19.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Trader Joe's 0605 Paramus has more employees than the Grocery Store median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 22.9 14.0 30 1 0
2023 24.6 14.9 32 1 0
2022 35.8 23.3 23 17 0
2021 19.8 16.3 11 12 0
2020 17.6 13.4 13 8 0
2019 12.2 7.3 14 1 0
2018 13.3 5.3 14 1 0
2017 16.2 16.2 16 0 0
2016 9.5 5.3 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NJ · Paramus

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 105 employers in Paramus, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0690 Naperville 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR McBride & Shaw, Inc dba Cal Mart 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5770 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0102 Temecula 19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CARDO WINDOWS, INC 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Siegfried-USA LLC 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avet Pharmaceuticals Labs, Inc. 182 FTE
STATE-SIZE #617 Montgomery Shoprite 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRMSNJ60 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRMSNJ60 - AT&T Mobility Services LLC 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garden State Plaza 075 609 FTE
CITY-NEAR LBF - HQ 401 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0690 Naperville 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Maintenance Facility 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CA050RVM 19.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Pines Ctr - Dhhs 19.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ritter Communications - Jonesboro 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE C286 Cincinnati PC 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Springs Bottled Water Company 182 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency Hospital of Toledo LLC 182 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.